A love of
AC/DC may have inadvertently outed the identity of someone associated with
recently hacked AshleyMadison.com, an influential IT journalist and consultant
suggests...The police say the company became aware of the attack
when employees came into work one morning and all of their computers saw a
threatening message from the Impact Team, as the hacker group claiming
responsibility for the attack calls itself. That message was accompanied by
AC/DC song Thunderstruck.
Last Tuesday, a group calling itself “Impact Team” followed through on its threat to release data it had stolen from Ashley Madison, an internet service that facilitates encounters between people interested in having extramarital affairs. The data included information on approximately 37 million people who had signed up for the site (see news reports at Wired and The New York Times, for example).
Philosophers on Ashley
The Ashley Madison Hackers Just Released a Ton of Stolen Data Gizmodo. We said Ashley Madison = extortion futures.
If you want
to succeed in business, you need to keep an eye on what your competitors are
doing. But judging by a cache of alleged internal emails published by hackers,
Noel Biderman, the CEO of Avid Life Media (ALM), the company that owns Ashley
Madison, wanted to go a step further.
The Evolution of Magazine Covers
Karen X. Cheng and Jerry Gabra offer a fascinating look at how magazines have changed (or not changed, New Yorker,) over time.
Jeff Bezos Assures Amazon Employees That HR Working 100 Hours A Week To Address Their Complaints Onion
What Amazon Didn’t Understand About Overwork The Nation
In landmark case, labor board will let more workers bargain with their employer’s employer WaPo
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Posh doors versus poor doors
Will
technologists digitize themselves out of jobs someday?
ZDnet, 23/8/15. New Deloitte study asserts technology has created more jobs than those destroyed. IT opportunities have grown substantially, but will automation, cloud and mobile sustain or reverse this trend?
*Report - Technology and people: The great job-creating machine
ZDnet, 23/8/15. New Deloitte study asserts technology has created more jobs than those destroyed. IT opportunities have grown substantially, but will automation, cloud and mobile sustain or reverse this trend?
*Report - Technology and people: The great job-creating machine
Civil unrest is already happening in America and it could get a lot worse in 2016 Business Insider
George A. Akerlof – Phishing for Phools Chronicle of Higher Education
TaxGrrrl, Owner Of ITS, Formerly Fourth Largest Tax Prep Biz In Country, To Face Criminal Charges. “Readers sent me numerous emails advising that ITS was still in business for the 2014 tax season, despite the court order.”
Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science Scien2
- Retrotopia: Dawn Train from Pittsburgh The Archdruid
Exclusive: Read Julian Assange’s Introduction to The Wikileaks Files Gizmodo
- The day macroeconomics changed Mainly Macro. “[I]f I cannot understand something, it is best to assume it does not exist. [Not.]”